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Re: [TCML] fused Variac

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Subject: Re: [TCML] fused Variac
From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:26:15 -0800
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Thanks, Ralph!

I've always wondered how the "shorted turn" problem was resolved inVariacs.


-Phil LaBudde"

	Should add that the brushes are carbon, not graphite [at least on all the variacs I've seen].  Extra resistance reduce short circhit current when the brush bridges two turns.

Ed


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